They also work on both mobile and desktop, so you can visit your favorite site anywhere. They’re also more secure, so you can be safer while shopping, banking, or reading sensitive documents. This trend reveals that sites are migrating to open web technologies, which are faster and more power-efficient than Flash. Today usage is only 17 percent and continues to decline. Three years ago, 80 percent of desktop Chrome users visited a site with Flash each day. But over the last few years, Flash has become less common. Today, Adobe announced its plans to stop supporting Flash at the end of 2020.įor 20 years, Flash has helped shape the way that you play games, watch videos and run applications on the web.